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January 30, 2007
The Review: Week 4 (November 16th - November 22nd)
Brent Prismall aims to play every senior game in 2007
With the draft coming up, Brent Prismall spoke about the "learning curve" that is AFL football. After believing he didn't deserve to play AFL football in his first season at the club he made his debut in Round 5 against Sydney breaking his arm just after getting his first ever AFL possession. He recovered to play 7 more games including the last 5 of the season.
"I definitely felt different this year. I'm not sure why, but in the back of your mind you always think when you get drafted, you're a chance to play senior footy that year," Prismall told gfc.com.au on Thursday."But looking back on my first year, I wasn't as fit as I should have been and I just didn't appreciate the hard work I had to do to get into the senior team."
"I think I've done that now but by no means have I hit the levels I need to be at. I still need to keep improving with my fitness and my skill and stuff. But I've got a bit more of an understanding of my body and AFL footy and what goes with it."
Prismall knows the worth of a strong pre-season and credits hard work at the start of this year to the fitness he was able to recover after his broken arm.
"After I had my arm broken, I really wanted to get back in there and looking back now, I got rewards for all that hard work I put in during that five week period when I couldn't do anything," he said.
"Over the pre-season (in 2006) I worked hard so that was pretty much why I got those rewards towards the end of the year."
As for this year, the former Western Jet says the Cats are already working hard after coming back from holidays and are reaping the rewards from hitting the track with vigour.
"It's been good. It's been solid and different but we're already starting to see rewards at the end of the tunnel," he said.
"We're really enjoying it."
"The name is Max and don't you forget it"
Jarad Rooke made his intentions clear that from now on he wants to be known as Max Rooke. The reasoning behind it being it's his middle name, his grandfathers name and what he prefers. We love it Max...well we don't really but we'll live.
Lastly the club reported it made a profit for the seventh consecutive year. The net profit for the year 2006 is reported to be $341,000 down on last years net profit of $737,000 with Cook stating the reason being an extra $1m was committed to the football department.
Posted by Sammy D at January 30, 2007 02:16 PM